David Nicol wrote:
I would think a good imaginary reader for this document would be a
literature professor who had a volunteer geek set up a mailing list
system on their home computer which has a dynamic IP and through the
magic of dyndns.org, the whole system works just fine for several
years until one day, after an ice storm, Dr. Nadagik's box loses the
DHCP lottery and is inconvenienced by drawing a nomber formerly
occupied by a neighbor with poor download hygiene and a tendency to
have his decrepit equipment compromised by operators of global
anonymous botnets.
Oh, woe betide the poor server whose DHCP, after failure, doth return
askew! Hast thou so quickly dismissed thy geekly intern, and through
forgetful folly neglect to request that full documentation be laid upon
thy hand? And now, poor fool, finding much email rejected through past
actions solely of thy neighbor, seek you enlightenment from this poor
RFC? 'Tis but feeble illumination ye shall find here, alas, for 'tis
solely through pedantry and endless argumentation were such as this
writ. Another intern, methinks, must thou now seek -- and unto that
fresh and welcoming mind deliver such best practices as to make
dizziness ensue.
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